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You are at the beach, away from your family, hanging out with your friends. You have access to alcohol and ‘weed’ and are encouraged to partake and feeling pressured to fit in. You are just a few weeks from graduating and have applied for a great paying ‘high demand” job that offers you a great career after high school. Drug testing is a prerequisite and random drug testing continues after you start the job. A positive drug test will keep you from getting and keeping the job. Not partying with your friends may result in alienation. What will you do?

1. Identify the problem.

In order for you to get great paying “high demanding” job, you cannot partake with your friends activities of smoking weed and drinking weed.

2. Determine all the possible solutions

Stop drinking and smoking

Find new friends

Look for a new job

3. Evaluate the positive and negative consequences of each:

Positives

You’ll have money

Finding better friends

You will be sober

Negatives

Lose your job

Lose your friends

4. Develop an action plan.

Stop hanging out with your friends if they are influencing you to do drugs.

5. What did you learn?

You will always have choices when it comes to certain problems but they will always have negative and positive consequences

The article, “Hard Knocks” was written by Alan Schwarz and posted in The New York TImes Upfront vol. 143, on December 13, 2010. This article was written about people who play football and go through brain traumas. After playing football for a long time there had been cases where the athletes are diagnosed early stages of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or more commonly known as C.T.E.